Detection of Microcalcifications in Mammograms Using Higher Order Statistics

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 213-216

  Gurcan, M Nafi ^a   Yardimci, Yasemin ^a   Enis Cetin, A ^a   Ansari, Rashid ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL THEORY;

MAMMOGRAM IMAGES; MICROCALCIFICATIONS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0031212586     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: 15582361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/97.611278     Document Type: Article

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